For some time I have been using the GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program - the open source software equivalent of Adobe PhotoShop. I am not doing very advanced stuff - mostly resizing and cropping pictures, but I wanted something a little more sophisticated than Microsoft Paint.

I have had a little accident with the GIMP GUI, though. At some point I must have accidentally undocked and closed the tool property window from the main GIMP window. It took me a while to figure out how to reopen that window (Shift + Ctrl + T), but there was no way I could make it re-dock within the main window. I figured this could be one of those *minor* things that can take ages to sort out, without being very important. So, I just left the tool property window on its own, but managed to get annoyed about the many windows that would open when I started the GIMP (4: main window, layers window, tool property window plus Tip of the Day).

Anyways, today I decided I had enough and I searched for tips on docking GIMP windows. I quickly found this forum post, which precisely explains how to dock GIMP windows, in easily digestible steps, with images…w00t!¹ The GIMP documentation explains ¹ The GIMP documentation explains how to dock and undock windows - but with fewer images and less explanation.

See also carol.gimp.org.

1. As per Sept. 17, 2007 the forums at Nintendo.com have been closed [back]

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The launch of the Apple iPhone has prompted the creation of numerous cool websites. Some of these websites only work with the iPhone's Safari Browser, but a great many work with any browser - including the one on your phone….

A couple of weeks ago, I commented on these iPhone-specific websites, labeling them as a bad idea. I still think they are, but one can hope that by promoting the creation of mobile-friendly websites, the iPhone adds to the momentum of the »mobile internet«.

So if you have a mobile with 3G - and/or WLAN - plus a decent browser, you are all set to go! And you really should go because there is so much to see and try… (as I hope you will agree after reading this post).

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 I own two Nokia N95 handsets and after reading about the release of the latest version of Nokia Maps (aka Smart2go), I decided to install the new version on one of the handsets. The other handset continues to run the »old« Maps version, v1.0/1.01 - the one that was included with the most recent firmware revision, v12.0.013. Between these to versions, a third version - v.1.1 - circulates on the net.

Ok, so whilst riding my bike to work this morning, I decided to conduct a minor comparative study of the two versions.

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200 years ago as a teenager, I would hang around in dodgy fast food places to play arcade video games. One of the games I played was »1942«, a game which I have recently (re)discovered for my mobile phone.

In fact, I have not just been playing it on my mobile phone - I have also been using the TV-out capability of the N95 to use the phone as a video game console with my TV.

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I clicked on a Google Adsense ad today and ended up at the site of the picture search engine, UTYP - part of the digital playground of the Hong Kong-based digital design company Nthinking.

Apparently, UTYP relies on its users to train the search engine so beneath the search text field an image is displayed (like the example to the right) with different descriptions, prompting the user to provide the description that makes the most sense to him/her.

No problem so far - it's actually quite fun to give feed back on a few images.

Until this image came on the screen, that is.

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I have been using the Web Browser for S60 on my N95 quite a bit during the last few days.

For no particular reason - except my own convenience - I post the keypad shortcuts that can be used with it:

"1″-key: Open bookmarks.

"2″-key: Open search field - search as you type.

"3″-key: Back-button.

"5″-key: Select window (if more than one window is open) - use left-right to switch between windows.

"8″-key: Open page overview.

"9″-key: Enter new web address.

"*"-key: Zoom in on page.

"0″-key: Go to start page.

"#"-key: Zoom out on page.

These shortcuts are hard-coded into the application and cannot be changed. Keys "4″, "6″ and "7″ do not appear to do anything.

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